From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH bootconfig 1/3] doc: Update /proc/cmdline documentation to include boot config
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 10:17:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231005171747.541123-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ea609a4-12e3-4266-8816-b9fca1f1f21c@paulmck-laptop>
Update the /proc/cmdline documentation to explicitly state that this
file provides kernel boot parameters obtained via boot config from the
kernel image as well as those supplied by the boot loader.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 2b59cff8be17..5703b0e87cbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -691,7 +691,8 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
apm Advanced power management info
buddyinfo Kernel memory allocator information (see text) (2.5)
bus Directory containing bus specific information
- cmdline Kernel command line
+ cmdline Kernel command line, both from bootloader and embedded
+ in the kernel image
cpuinfo Info about the CPU
devices Available devices (block and character)
dma Used DMS channels
--
2.40.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-05 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-05 17:16 [PATCH bootconfig 0/3] Expose boot-loader kernel command-line arguments Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-05 17:17 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2023-10-07 1:48 ` [PATCH bootconfig 1/3] doc: Update /proc/cmdline documentation to include boot config Masami Hiramatsu
2023-10-05 17:17 ` [PATCH bootconfig 2/3] fs/proc: Add boot loader arguments as comment to /proc/bootconfig Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-06 8:59 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-10-06 16:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-07 1:42 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-10-07 3:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-05 17:17 ` [PATCH bootconfig 3/3] doc: Add /proc/bootconfig to proc.rst Paul E. McKenney
2023-10-07 1:51 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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